Elizabeth Strout Quotes
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.
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My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.
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Being honest with the public is how they respect you.
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Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
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My parents were very, very, very strict.
